Almost on cue for the stories above, Tesla announced a wide range of ambitious expansion plans at its annual shareholder meeting. Chief among these was a stated goal to eventually build 10-20 gigafactories, with a production capacity of between 12 and 24 million vehicles annually. They’ll need some ambitious charging schemes like the ones mentioned above to make those number viable. Actually, they might first want to concentrate on figuring out how the hell they can sell that many vehicles.

Self-Driving Cars–Honda announced a target date of 2025 for bringing fully self-driving cars to the marketplace. They’ve set a date of 2020 for rolling out vehicles with an autonomous freeway driving option, as an interim step.

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There are fascinating stories like these almost every week, if not every day. Only a small percentage of so-called breakthroughs ever pan out. Only one really good one is all that is needed in the automotive space to be a game changer. The same goes for solar energy storage.